Solved Enhancing gaming experience

[mojoo90]

is my AMD Mobillity Radeon 5430 support recent high resoulotion games (512 Mb) , and is there any driver/app can enhance my gaming experience ?

 

[Mashed1316]

Hello there, mojoo90!

Well, AMD Radeon 5430 is not a gaming card. It's a low-end card.

You won't be able to play a lot of games with it, there is a common misbelief, people think that having a 1GB+ VRAM card is good, but no, the VRAM is important of course, but most important is the GPU itself (Graphics Processor Unit), since the HD5430 is a low end card, its GPU is on the low-end.. making it really hard to be able to play newer games at playable settings.

Sorry to bring you the bad news

And there's no driver/app that will enhance that gaming experience because the "issue" is hardware related.

 

[mojoo90]

thanx Punkster for the good news.........but what "low-end" means ?

 

[Mashed1316]

These days, Graphic Cards can be divided into 2 big groups:

1) Integrated
2) Dedicated

The integrated ones comes in the motherboard chipset (IE: G31/G33, 760G, etc.), the dedicated ones usually are add-in cards that goes into PCIe slots, and currently divided into 3 groups:

1) low-end
2) mid-end
3) high-end

The low-end cards are cheap solutions that are better than any integrated video chip, usually from 30 - 80$ (IE: Nvidia GT520)
The mid-end cards are relatively cheap and can be used in a casual gaming machine, usually from 80 - 150$ (IE: Nvidia GTX 550ti)
The high-end cards are relatively expensive and are used in hardcore gaming / video hungry machines, they go from 150 to 1,500$ (ASUS Mars II)

So, low-end means: less video power, less components, less power consumption, but cheaper than mid and high end ones.

I have a GT 440 (512MB) that was 68$, i consider it a low-end card even though i runs all my games at max settings in 1360 x 768 resolution.

Based on its specs, it is a low end GPU, but i love it someday i'll upgrade to a better system

 

[mojoo90]

so after all its not that bad right? ....a have GTA 5 and it runs smoothly , almost at the same quality as my xbox 360 , by the way my processor is intel i3 2.53 is that make any deference?

 

[Mashed1316]

Yes. Processor helps a lot.

Common belief says: PC games use 40% of CPU power and 60% of GPU power.

I don't know if this is true or not, but i do think so. Having a Core i3 @ 2.53GHz processor will help the GPU on its tasks (at least in games).

Having a lower class processor will bottleneck your GPU, hence, you won't be able to use all its power.

IE: a GTX 580 paired with a Celeron D processor, the CPU bottlenecks the GPU so, although the GTX 580 is the fastest single GPU on the market, a better balanced rig will outperform that bottleneck. IE: a Core i5 2500k with a GTX 560 (Non-Ti)

Hope this doesn't confuse you hehe.

 

[mojoo90]

so the CPU & GPU should be compatible with each other right? ....... my windows index is 5 and my gaming & 3D score is 6 out of 7.9 , how my labtop scored this high numbers with this video card?

 

[Mashed1316]

Not exactly compatible, because all CPU/GPUs are compatible with each other, it's more of a balanced formula, high-end cpu with a high-end gpu and so on.

That score is OK for your cpu/gpu. And never rely on Windows Experience Index's score because it's not a real world test or scenario it's just reference numbers

 

[mojoo90]

5 hr ago i have downloaded 3DMARKS 11 basic installed and used it , i got low score 343 , that's really support what you said........there is alot of locked features in this basic version , could it help in anyway?

 

[Mashed1316]

I really can't tell, never used 3D Mark '11 to do any benchmarks, but i've noticed that the Basic version only has a few settings to modify, i wouldn't give that much importance to a video card.

If right now it's doing what you want it to do... then sit down, watch a movie, eat popcorns, drink pepsi and of course, enjoy your PC.

Be happy, bro!

 

[Windows i7 920]

Actually, IMO there's a 4th group:

- low-end
- mid-range
- high-end
- extreme (i.e. Radeon HD 6990)

Why I say this... I just can't justify putting something as insane as the 6990 with high-end cards like the 6870 in the same group. Massive price, and performance difference there

 

[Mashed1316]

The high-end cards are relatively expensive and are used in hardcore gaming / video hungry machines, they go from 150 to 1,500$ (ASUS Mars II)

IMO, the ASUS Mars II performs way better than the HD6990. It's the fastest Dual-GPU card on the market (and no, i'm not an Nvidia fanboy)

But yeah, we could call that segment "extreme", but for me, it's "high-end"

 

[mojoo90]

OOOOOOOOOOK PUNKSTER ....... and thanx alot for this valuable informations

 

[mojoo90]

you too Windows i7 920 thanx for da info.

 

[Keiichi25]

Thing to note also... Your Card is Mobility, which suggests - Laptop. Note most laptops are not designed for gaming, so you aren't going to get the best out of it. The other problem is the limitation of the card and the physical formfactor itself. Laptops are generally difficult to have a good gaming video card due to space limitations, power and heat venting.

When you look at some of the mid and top level cards, they have a fan to vent the heat, and dedicated memory. While the drivers can improve some performance, it is generally minor improvements, not major.

 

[mojoo90]

thanx Keiichi25 ....by the way i have DELL inspiron n4030.

 

[Corpsecrank]

The fact that it is mobility class alone means it is already going to be pretty limited. I have yet to see any of the mobility graphics perform well enough to game on.

 

[Keiichi25]

thanx Keiichi25 ....by the way i have DELL inspiron n4030.

Yea, Inspirions are really not design for gaming. So you will be hard press to 'increase' performance level on them. They can do some decent 3D, but you will only maybe squeeze about 5 to 10 FPS with a driver update.

 

[hunuok]

You can use programs such as Game Booster to turn off unnecessary programs. These are turned on/off automatically by pressing a button.

Make sure your HDD is defragmented, and check your manufacturer for latest drivers.

These little things may help performance and they're free.

Good luck.

 

[RST101]

The high-end cards are relatively expensive and are used in hardcore gaming / video hungry machines, they go from 150 to 1,500$ (ASUS Mars II)

IMO, the ASUS Mars II performs way better than the HD6990. It's the fastest Dual-GPU card on the market (and no, i'm not an Nvidia fanboy)

But yeah, we could call that segment "extreme", but for me, it's "high-end"

And for the rest of the computing world there is only three, low, mid and high.